Ex...slaVe Stories	Three
(Texas)






a calf git eat by a panther. Massa hunt ci~,t p~tnther and shoot hirn in a tree.

	“One dF~y Smoot tell me tc~ bring all de hands to de house when dey blows de nom at noon. ~ther~ dey gits dere old massa say dey‘s free as ~e was. If dey stays he say he give ‘em ~lf de crop, but didiivt one stay. Six ~ seven what want s ~ back t o de old home massa done cive teems t o and~.it tr~ke dem ‘bout six week ~ ~xorne, I~s glad to gît dere. I couldn‘t see free

~	meant no better, Missus plantation seem mighty pleasant. ‘II been marry twict. Fust time a gal name Celeste, but sh~ ‘fuse

to corue to Texas with me ~md dat ‘solve de marriage. I marry dis wife, Sarah, ‘bout a few year ago, Us been marry ‘bou.t 22 year.
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